Remote Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Description:

• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience to join our team at Hypixel Studios, which collaborates remotely from around the world.
• Our team consists of members ranging from industry newcomers to experts with over 25 years of experience.
• Team members come from diverse backgrounds but share a common passion for building polished, player-focused, community-powered games.
• The mission is to bring players together in an inviting, immersive world where they can make their mark.
• As a Senior Software Engineer for the Developer Experience team, you will be a subject matter expert on the mechanics of our development platform.
• You will champion developer workflows, code quality, local test and build reliability, and developer empowerment.
• Your role includes collaborating with game developers across all disciplines to streamline and troubleshoot their development workflows.
• You will own the design and continuous improvement of systems such as automated IDE configuration, developer onboarding, Slack automation, local build optimization, and digital content creation pipeline optimization.
• You will work closely with our CI/CD Team to ensure that development works seamlessly across all machines.

Requirements:

• You must have 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• You should have 3+ years of experience in analyzing and improving software development workflows.
• Strong experience with Git, Perforce, or other modern version control solutions is required.
• You should be team-oriented, self-motivated, and autonomous.
• Bonus traits include experience with distributed, incremental build systems (FastBuild, Bazel, etc.), CI/CD and build tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, CircleCI, etc., tooling in the C++ ecosystem (AddressSanitizer, MTuner, Clang-Tidy, Visual Studio, IntelliJ), and familiarity with quality tools and techniques such as linters, static analyzers, fuzz testing, and memory analysis.

Benefits:

• We offer a competitive salary.
• An annual performance bonus (APB) is provided.
• Quality of life increases are included.
• There is a Christmas closure for employees.
• You will have the chance to work on a new game project with an extremely motivated team.
• Opportunities to learn and grow personally and professionally are available.
• We provide a stable and secure work environment.
• The ability to work remotely is offered.